A fresh study from America's second largest mobile carrier, AT&T, Inc. (T), adds fuel to the fire. It reports that more adult drivers are texting the road today than teens. The study was conducted last April and examined 1,200 cell-phone owning teens between ages 15 and 19 who drive, along with 1,011 cell-phone owning adults.

According to the survey, around 43 percent of teens text while driving. Surprisingly that number is even higher among adults -- 49 percent admit to performing the risky maneuver at some point. Among the total participants 98 percent said they felt texting and driving was unsafe (including those who were doing it).

While they know it’s wrong, four out of ten say it's not just an occasional emergency measure, it's a habit. And six out of ten who text-and-drive say that they did not do so three years ago, indicating the risky behavior is on the rise.

AT&T says it believes one reason why more adults text while driving than teens is the pressure of work responsibilities. After all, it's hard to ignore that text from your boss when (s)he is demanding an immediate answer. Thus AT&T is encouraging the adoption of anti-texting programs that call on employees and managers to cooperate to reduce the practice.

Cathy Coughlin, AT&T's global marketing officer, is heading the so-called "It Can Wait" anti-texting-and-driving campaign, which launched in 2009. She comments, "Through the It Can Wait movement, AT&T is collaborating with employers, nonprofits, law enforcement, educators, legislators, professional associations and government agencies nationwide. I'm confident, together we can save lives by encouraging millions more to make the personal commitment never to text and drive."

Not only do they pay my cell bill, they expect me to be on time on calls some over 100 miles apart across some rural areas. And they track me with the cell phone using the teen tracking app. If I pull over to use the apps I'm late, if I don't answer / lookup I can't manage my calls. It's a horrible situation where the best I can do is wait for a long stretch of road with no traffic.

I have one and love it. Free cell phone. And we're almost never called. It's more of a benefit slash emergency work situation preparedness thing. We also get laptops for that reason. That way if there was ever a disaster, we could work from anywhere. It also gives us the flexibility to work from home if we need/want to.

I think that it depends on the company and also your supervisor. I'm pretty sure that if my supervisor tried to call me or text me while I'm driving, that I should be able to tell him that I'm driving and then he'll leave me alone until I can find a good time to stop and call or text him back to find out what's up.

But again, that's depends on your supervisor.

Re: trackingI work for a company that has some like 164,000 employees worldwide. Granted, not all of us have company cellphones of course, but I would think that even if you're trying to track 1/10th of that, it would be a bit of a management nightmare. (Somtimes, it's just not worth it, even IF they are footing the bill for it.)

No company looks at all the data they collect. They just setup an automated collection of it then examine it as need be. AT&T sells the same package that tracks teen phones to businesses for almost nothing if they give them "X" amount of cell phones. The tracking works with map quest data so they can see every place you carried your phone during any week they need to look at. It's their phone

quote: Not only do they pay my cell bill, they expect me to be on time on calls some over 100 miles apart across some rural areas. And they track me with the cell phone using the teen tracking app. If I pull over to use the apps I'm late, if I don't answer / lookup I can't manage my calls. It's a horrible situation where the best I can do is wait for a long stretch of road with no traffic.

Actually my salary is horrible, but I need a part time job while I get my degree paid for and this is all I can find in my area. Good thing my wife makes excellent money, which is why we can't move now. And you know what they say about people that call others names, that they lack the ability to perform critical thinking.

And for you guys that think your company paid cell phone isn't tracked, exactly how do you know that? It doesn't have to show up on the bill as this is a separate service paid for in group.

After witnessing people nearly run off the road multiple times due to them playing with their phones, I do. Thankfully I horned them and got their attention before they did in a few of those situations.